Month: October 2004

Stuntmutt pointed out a nice little contest over at Game Revolution – Enter, you’ve got a chance to win some cool Halo schwag.

A quick reminder – HBO Coerce is going offline at midnight EDT tonight. (That’s about 7 hours from now, for folks who can’t do the math.) Go play some last minute Halo CE!

Biography of Master Chief, Part 1, at Newgrounds. Wronchi takes liberties. Thanks, Blade.

Stuntmutt, too, has gotten into the spirit, with a special holiday One One Se7en.

Yesterday, Sep7imus mentioned that the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contained an article about Halo 2. He couldn’t scan it, though. Today, Finchmeister found an online link for the same article – no scans necessary.

ONI_operative_343 found a new Halo 2 action figure mini-pack (it doesn’t seem to be advertised on Joyride’s site). You can see it (and buy it) at DieCastExpress.com.

Kevin Ryan made a Halo 2 Halloween comic last winter – Red Leader suggested now is a good time to remind people. You can find it at Black Arts Studios.

Alex Barnes noticed a commercial on Spike TV for a show called ‘Halo 2 Ultimate Gamer’. (We posted the casting notice for this a couple of weeks ago.) If you want to watch – check out showtimes. (Coming up this Thursday and Saturday.)

mecka wrote to say that he works for a company that is putting up large Halo 2 posters in public transport shelters across Melbourne, Australia – and he snapped a pic (164K) of one of these babies before pasting it up. It’s about 1.8 m (6 feet) tall. Pretty!

There’s a Dutch site that’s hosting some sort of game awards, and Halo 2 is up for ‘New Hit Award’. The whole site is in Dutch, and I don’t really know what happens with the winners, but wouter van der fluit is pretty insistent that we post this. If you’re Dutch, and can translate/give us…

Sean Kelly pointed out a new clip on the MTV website promoting this week’s Making of Halo 2 video (showtimes are here). Once again, it’s XP/IE only. Some websites suck.

The Melbourne (Australia) Herald Sun had a short article on Pete Parsons, the ‘man behind Halo 2’ (that’s a direct quote) and a previous Melbourne resident. There’s a followup next week. Pooston sent us a digital photo of the article (229K).

A few days ago we mentioned a page on the I Love Bees website that discussed a closed invite to a ‘training session’ in 4 large cities – as of last night, that invite has been opened to several hundred people per city. Go visit the page, and if you’re in the area, follow the…

Mostly working on pumpkin stuff today (the number of entries nearly doubled overnight), but there’s other Halo news. In an attempt to staunch the flood of emails about the new Official Halo Soundtrack clip over at nilerogers.com, I’ll post that now. It’s called ‘Heretic, Hero’, and the snippet is 1.1 mb (1:10 long). As always,…

To all the people who send mail to us: READ THIS. A week ago, Count Zero posted a note stating that he was going to stop reading and answering mail until after Halo 2’s release, to avoid spoilers. The rest of the crew has pretty much decided the same thing. Since that point, HBO has…

Quick note, before heading to dinner – Homefront has finally been released. If you own Battlefield: Vietnam… go grab it. Thanks to lots of people, but Zavaro was first.

Major Nelson, the Xbox marketing guy, has a blog entry up from yesterday about a gathering of ‘the most influential fansites from across Europe’ – he’s talking Xbox fansites, now. They got lots of cool treats… but the last might have been the best:To cap off the day, we held the very first European Halo…

Just got finished organizing the entries so far for the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – I have to say, I’m really impressed. There are currently 37 entries… and some are AMAZING. The contest is still open for another 36 hours or so; at Midnight EST tomorrow night, we close the doors to entries. Then,…

Very nice – BOLL extracted one of the more interesting pictures from the Halo 2 Montage now available at Halo2.com (it’s PC-only, to save you a download if you’re on a Mac). Now, if you’re one of the people who felt that the mere existence of a creature not present in the first Halo should…

Another review comes back perfect – this one is OXM UK’s Halo 2 review, another 10/10. So far, of the OXMs, only OXM US has rated Halo 2 less than perfect… Thanks, Andy C.